Clinical and economic arguments favour extension to upper age limit for breast screening

Upper age limit should be raised for cancer screening

Caroline White, London 204, 64, 207, 105 Current age bands for cancer screening in the United Kingdom seem to have been arbitrarily selected and are not based on rational criteria, according to researchers from the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine in London. The age band is critical to evaluating the effectiveness of screening programmes and for identifying priorities in screening polic...

In search of the best upper age limit for breast cancer screening.

The aim of this study was to determine the best upper age limit for a breast cancer screening programme. We used a model-based study using optimistic and pessimistic assumptions, concerning improvement of prognosis due to screen-detection and duration of the period of mammographic detectability, resulting in upper and lower limits for favourable and unfavourable effects. Under pessimistic assum...

Arguments in favour of endosome maturation.

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The Upper Limit of C-14 Age?

Upper age limit for bronchiolitis: 12 months or 6 months?

confidence in their ability to quit experiencing a reduction in their level of motivation, and smokers achieving success boosting them up. We could not establish with confidence whether motivation levels were still balanced between groups throughout the duration of the study. Lastly, it was suggested to expand upon the correlation between behavioural (i.e. GN-SBQ) and physical (i.e. the Fagerst...